Wii Karting…
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming. It's a good game. You should try it.
Archive for the ‘Review’ Category
I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming. It's a good game. You should try it.
Lunch
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Considerably better than the school canteen out at $BIG_COMPANY is pretty much everything else. Even McDonalds (because they at least give you WiFi). Today I had lunch at Kainan Cafe, at the end of Royal Avenue. They have a blog as well which impresses me no end. What you can see there ...
Subnotes
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008I've got two 'subnotes' in the house here. An Asus eee PC and a MacBook Air. Yes, it's true that the MacBook cost five times the cost of the eee PC but the differences are startling. AttributeMacBook Aireee PC Screen res/size13" @ 1280x8007 inch @ 800x480 Screen border
Henry Rollins at Vicar Street
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Yesterday afternoon I visited the dentist. I hate the dentist. No, I don't hate my dentist (she's very pleasant), but I hate going because I fear it. But I broke a tooth in early January and I needed to get it sorted. Forty minutes later I'm walking out, feeling somewhat ...
MWSF2008: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Every year we wait for the new and sparkly stuff from Apple and we often get it. The move to Intel. The iPhone. the 17" and 12" Powerbooks wayback when. This year is no different. We have a new subnotebook, software updates and a glimpse into Apple's plans for ...
Tom Raftery on the Nokia N810
Monday, January 14th, 2008Tom Raftery rips Nokia a new one with his review of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Last summer there was a huge amount of interest in the Nokia tablets after the 770 was available for a knockdown price. I was about to go on holiday for a week and couldn't ...
Unqualified Reservations talks Google Android.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007From Five Problems with Google Android: The quality of the user experience on the iPhone makes a major difference to Apple's bottom line. The quality of the Android experience has only a slight connection to Google's. Sure, everyone on the project would like it to succeed. It's not about the users. It's ...
Magic 8-ball says: Outlook not so good
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007That's a pretty brief review of Outlook 2003 when connected to an Exchange Server. When my IMAP server isn't responding, I still have my local data. And it works. And when things change, they sync up nicely. Yesterday I spent the morning restarting Outlook as it kept crashing every time the ...
Microsoft reviews the iPhone: “a lousy iPod”
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Is it a qualification or essential criteria to be an idiot if you work in the higher echelons of Microsoft? From the NYTimes, J. Allard, chief of Microsoft's competing Zune unit whines about the iPhone: It’s a lousy iPod. You can’t skip a track without looking at it. You can’t go running ...